Jiyad Minhas

Jiyad Minhas (18 October 1950-12 May 2015) was a politician of Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami political party.

Biography
Jiyad Minhas was born on 18 October 1950 in Dhaka, East Pakistan, Pakistan to a Bengali Muslim family. Minhas had a strict religious upbringing, and he was pro-Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Minhas took part in several massacres while a member of the Razakars in 1971. Minhas later became a political commentator while living in Khulna, where he moved after the war. Minhas also had a home in Chittagong. He was known for his Islamist views, and encouraged others to put religion before their personal desires.

In October 2010 Bangladeshi police raided his home in Chittagong, and Minhas was arrested due to war crimes committed forty years earlier. Minhas was sentenced to death by hanging. At 5:45 PM on 12 May 2015, he was sent to the gallows, and hung at 6:00 PM.